LETTER: Cummings only advises and can be gone quickly

Letters July 24 Peter Simpson on Mr Cummings and his puzzlement of my support. First he comes out with the specious comment that he is running the country. Mr Cummings is Mr Johnson’s Spad (Special Adviser) or Chief of Staff for managing his work schedule – a PM could have around 15 of these Spads advising on different policy ideas. All Ministers and MPs have these people on board their teams. This started with Harold Wilson in 1964 and all P.Ms since then have made use of them. Tony Blair had Toxic Campbell that plagiarised a student essay and started a war on fictionalised misrepresentations leading to many millions of deaths in the Middle East, sent our under equipped and unprepared military services out there to die in their hundreds. Not to mention the very worrying and suspicious death of Dr Kelly, the report into which left many questions unanswered. Then we had “Poison” McBridie advising Mr Brown destroying jobs,lives and reputations. Not one of those two or any others are elected to their posts.

Then he spuriously picks me up on the throwaway “double standards” line that Mr Cummings is not elected and so why do I criticise the EU bureaucracy of not being elected. The simple answer is that Mr Cummings only advises and is only in position as long Mr Johnson is PM and can be gone in minutes. The EU tells us what to do, how to do it and when to do it. These bureaucrats can be around for years without a democratic vote. He then says that Mr Cummings is writing every policy and statement by the Government when we all know the Cabinet meetings and civil servants carry that out.

His final point is also interesting and goes back 3 months when we had all that faux anger and a campaign was orchestrated and whipped up to get rid of Mr Cummings, because they disliked his ideas, when he took his family to a place of safety. Under that pressure some Conservative MPs succumbed to it but that as now blown over and normal service is resumed.

Keith Jones, Cradley Heath

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